A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

NASA unveils a groundbreaking approach to bring Martian rock samples back to Earth by 2026, introducing competition between ...

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

The first approach involves utilizing NASA’s proven sky crane technology, which successfully delivered the Perseverance rover ...

The Mars Sample Return effort was billions of dollars over budget and not expected to return to Earth with its samples until ...

For nearly half a century, NASA has been talking an awfully good game about its much-heralded Mars Sample Return (MSR) project. As long ago as 1978, the space agency requested funding to develop a ...